This is a series of wisdom and mystical knowledge that will be examined... This knowledge will show the hidden teachings of Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef also known as Jesus the Christ but will also include esoteric knowledge from the Mystics of all religions and philosophies...
All of these Mystics will ask you to find the ' Source of All ', and to ' Know Thyself '... Enter into the most important experience of your life...

O Friend! we are near you in friendship,
Wherever you set foot, we prostrate ourselves like earth.
How is it permissible, in the religion of love,
That we should see your Creation and neglect to see You?

That Friend brought me up with great care and attention;
He sewed me a garment from skin and veins.
The body is like a cloak and my heart in it like a mystic,
The world is like a monastery and He is my Guide.

Seek knowledge which unravels mysteries
Before your life comes to close
Give up that non-existence which looks like existence,
Seek that Existence which looks like non-existence!

There is a world outside Islam and Disbelief,
We are enamoured of the atmosphere therein.
The mystic lays down his head when he reaches there.
There is neither Islam nor Disbelief in this place.

Whenever I prostrate my head He is the one to whom I bow;
In six directions or outside the six, he is the one I worship.
The garden, the rose, the nightingale, music and the beauteous maiden
Are a mere excuse and He alone is the real object.

From Divani Shams, "Life and Work of Muhammad Jalal-ud Din Rumi"
by Afzal Iqbal

When man is separated from God in his thought, his belief is of no use, his
worship is of little use.

Bowl of Saki, October 23, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

God and man are like the two ends of one line. When a believer in God conceives
of God as a separate entity and of man as a being separate from Him, he makes
himself an exile, an exile from the kingdom of God. He holds fast to the form of
God created by himself, and he does not reach the Spirit of God. However good
and virtuous he has been in life, however religious in his actions, he has not
fulfilled the purpose of his life. ...

Those who think that God is not outside but only within are as wrong as those
who believe that God is not within but only outside. In fact God is both inside
and outside, but it is very necessary to begin by believing in that God outside.
From our childhood we have learned everything outside. We learn what the eye is
by looking at the eyes of others; everything we see in ourselves we have always
learned from outside.

So even in order to learn to see God we must begin by seeing God outside: as the
Creator, the Judge, the Knower of all things, the forgiver; and when we have
understood Him better, the next step is that the God that we have always seen
outside we now also find within, and that completes our worship. If we have only
found Him outside then we are His worshippers, but we remain separate from him
and there is no communion, which is the purpose of life.

I realised that the egoic consciousness of humans build up the ego of a separate entity into celebrity and then, at the peak of this celebrity, the egoic consciousness attempts to destroy the fame of the individual ego..

I think that this is the lesson of 'Fame'..

Everyone wants to be near the famous and will not leave the famous alone..

Therefore, you are denied the importance of 'Solitude' and the peacefulness that is found within..

This is 'Consciousness' teaching the 'ego' that egoic consciousness is a state of pain..

When I witness the people on television with their intense desire to become famous, I can see the future of pain that they will encounter on the road of this desire for egoic celebrity..

I know that the ego will create 'Drama' as it interacts with other ego's and pain will be shared with others..

In that first
hardly noticed
moment
to which you wake,
coming back
to this life
from the other
more secret,
moveable
and frighteningly
honest
world
where everything
began,
there is a small
opening
into the new day
which closes
the moment
you begin
your plans.

What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.

What you can live
wholeheartedly
will make plans
enough
for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.

To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged.

Now, looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain
presence
of everything
that can be,
what urgency
calls you to your
one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread
its branches
against a future sky?

Is it waiting
in the fertile sea?
In the trees
beyond the house?
In the life
you can imagine
for yourself?
In the open
and lovely
white page
on the waiting desk?

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

This poetry, I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live!'

In truth everything and everyone
Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words...
We search for Him here and there,
while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one.

"Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily
discerned by those who love her, and is found by those
who seek her. She hastens to make herself known to
those who desire her. He who rises early to seek her
will have no difficulty, for he will find her sitting
at his gates.

"To fix one's thought on her is perfect understanding,
and he who is vigilant on her account will soon be
free from care, because she goes about seeking those
worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in
their paths, and meets them in every thought.

"The beginning of wisdom is the most sincere desire
for instruction, and concern for instruction is love
of her, and love of her is the keeping of her laws,
and giving heed to her laws is assurance of
immortality, and immortality brings one near to God;
so the desire for wisdom leads to a kingdom."

Renunciation is always for a purpose; it is to kindle the soul that nothing may
hold it back from God, but when it is kindled, the life of renunciation is not
necessary.

Bowl of Saki, October 3, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

Renunciation has an automatic action on the heart of man, an action which very
few realize because very few arrive at that stage where they can renounce. By
this action a spiritual spark is kindled in the soul; and when a person has
arrived at that stage he has taken the first step on the path of spirituality.
The spark produced by this action in the depths of the heart culminates in a
flame, a torch in life; and this changes the whole outlook on life. The whole
world seems changed, the same world in which one has lived and suffered and
enjoyed and learned and unlearned -- everything appears to change once
renunciation is learned. ... He alone is capable of renunciation who finds a
greater satisfaction in seeing another eat his piece of bread than in eating it
himself.

Only he whose heart is full of happiness after an act of renunciation should
make a renunciation. This shows that renunciation is not something that can be
learned or taught. It comes by itself as the soul develops, when the soul begins
to see the true value of things. All that is valuable to others a seer begins to
see differently. Thus the value of all the things that we consider precious or
not precious, is according to the way we look at them. For one person the
renunciation of a penny is too much; for another that of everything he possesses
is nothing. It depends on how we look at things. One rises above all that one
renounces in life. Man remains the slave of anything which he has not renounced;
of that which he has renounced he becomes king. This whole world can become a
kingdom to a person who has renounced it. Renunciation depends upon the
evolution of the soul. One who has not evolved spiritually cannot really
renounce. Toys so precious to children mean nothing to the grown-up; it is easy
to renounce them; and so it is for those who develop spiritually; for them all
things are easy to renounce.

Be obstinate in the path of success. Nothing should keep you back from your
effort when your resolution is once taken. Renounce your object of attainment
only when you have reached it and you have a better one in view. But when you
have attained the object and you cling to it, then you hinder your own progress,
for the object is greater than yourself. You are greater than the object when
you are able to renounce it after attaining it.

Some lead the life of renunciation, others have family, friends and all things,
because renunciation is always for a purpose. It is to kindle the soul, that
there may be nothing to hold the soul back from God, but when the soul is
kindled the life of renunciation is not a necessity.

It is as Fariduddin Attar, the great Persian poet, says, 'Renounce the good of
the world, renounce the good of heaven, renounce your highest ideal, and then
renounce your renunciation.'

When the stream of love flows in its full strength, it purifies all that stands in its way, as the Ganges - according to the teaching of the ancients - purifies all those who plunge into its sacred waters.

Bowl of Saki, September 30, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

When God's divine love rises as a wave, it washes away the sins of the whole life in a moment, for law has no power to stand before love: the stream of love sweeps it away.

Forgiveness is a stream of love which washes away all impurities wherever it flows. By keeping this spring of love, which is in the heart of man, running, man is able to forgive, however great the fault of his fellow man may seem. One who cannot forgive closes his heart. The sign of spirituality is that there is nothing you cannot forgive, there is no fault you cannot forget. Do not think that he who has committed a fault yesterday must do the same today, for life is constantly teaching and it is possible in one moment a sinner may turn into a saint.

True happiness is in love, which is the stream that springs from one's soul. He who will allow this stream to run continually in all conditions of life, in all situations, however difficult, will have a happiness which truly belongs to him, the source of which is not without, but within. If there is a constant outpouring of love one becomes a divine fountain, for from the depth of the fountain rises the stream and, on its return, it pours upon the fountain, bathing it continually. It is a divine bath, the true bath in the Ganges, the sacred river.

"Imagine training your mind so that when you look at every single living being, you think, 'My enlightenment depends on that being.

The drunk who just got on the bus--my enlightenment depends on him.

The soldier in Iraq--my enlightenment depends on him.

My brothers and sisters, the teller at the bank, the janitor at my workplace, the president of the United States, the suicide bombers in the Middle East, the slug in my garden, my eighth-grade boyfriend, the babysitter when I was a kid--my enlightenment depends on each of them.'

All sentient beings are actually that precious to us."

~ Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron

From the book, "Cultivating a Compassionate Heart: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig," published by Snow Lion Publications.

Good weapons are instruments of fear; all creatures hate them.
Therefore followers of Tao never use them.
The wise man prefers the left.
The man of war prefers the right.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart,
And victory no cause for rejoicing.
If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;
If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.

On happy occasions precedence is given to the left.
On sad occasions to the right.
In the army the general stands on the left.
The commander-in-chief on the right.
This means that war is conducted like a funeral.
When many people are being killed,
They should be mourned in heartfelt sorrow.
That is why a victory must be observed like a funeral.